Improvement in culinary vessels



D. J. ESSER.

CULINARY VESSEL. v

.No.177,703. 4 Patented May 23,1876.

m5. PHOTD-LJTHOGRPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C

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DANIEL J. EssEE, 0E MAUGE cHUNK, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULINARY VESSELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,703, dated May 23, 1876; application led March 6, 1876.

' State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and Improved Culinary Vessel, of which the following is a specification: Y

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a vertical central section olia my improved culinary vessel, and Fig. 2 a top View of the same with cover detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

My invention relates to an improved culinary vessel that is adapted to cook with paus and pots of larger and smaller' size in a per- .fectly odorless and inoffensive manner; and

the invention consists of sectional vessel with central bottom opening, closed top, and bottom supports, adapted to place different sizes of cooking vessels and broilers within the same.

In the drawing, A represents my improved culinary vessel for producing the cooking op# erations in a perfectly odorless manner. The vessel A is made oi' such size that larger and smaller pans, and larger and smaller pots, may be placed in the same, so as to adapt it for nearly all cooking operations. For the purpose of admitting the easier handling of the vessel A, it is made preferably of a smaller bottom section, B', for the pans, and a top section, B, of greater height for the pots.

The vessel may, however, if desired, be made of more than two sections, if it should be found more convenient for placing middlesized pots into the same. The lowermost section of the vessel has a central opening, a, ot' suliicient size to admit the free action of the lire on the inside pan or pot, and suitable supports or rests b, for the pots to be placed upon. The cover Q tits all the sections to close the same tightly, and produce the drawing o of all odors produced in cooking through the bottom opening by the draft caused by the fire. The upper section B of the vessel A is further provided with eyes or sockets d, to which one or more broilers, D, with suspensionhooks e, may be hung to admit the use ofthe vessel for broiling purposes.

The broilers may be made ofoctagonal shape, to admit the use of the samein horizontal position in 4the lower section. The broilers have to be provided with bottom troughs for collecting the drippings of the' meat.

The convenience of the sectional vessel consists in its adaptation to the different sizes of vessels used in cooking and to broilers, so that it is not confined to pans merely, but may be used for cooking and broiling without smoke and stench.

I am aware that culinary vessels adapted to cook with pans in odorless manner have been patented heretofore, and I therefore lay no claim to the same.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 'lhe combination of' upper section B, having cover C, with lower section B', having central `opening a and rests-b, as and forthe purpose ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

